Life can sometimes be difficult and draining, especially when you’re trying to serve God. But that’s why Jesus promised us the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not an impersonal force; He is the third Person of the trinity who empowers, convicts, guides, and comforts all believers. For more messages from Charles Stanley, including this week’s broadcast, go to www.intouch.org/watch
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every single believer is sealed by the
Holy Spirit now watch this no sin we can
break the seal nobody can break the seal
and no erroneous interpretation can
break the seal
we are sealed forever unto the day of
redemption t calls this home
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InTouch your convictions about the Holy
Spirit many believers will live their
entire life and miss out on one of God’s
awesome blessings because they’ll never
realize that living within them is the
Holy Spirit and God sent to live within
us in order to enable us to do the
things he wants us to do and to be the
person he wants us to be and most people
never realize that they’ll never think
about the fact that God not only saved
them but that he and weld them for verse
specific reason and I think that many
churches that did not even mention the
Holy Spirit and most people don’t know
what part he plays in their life if you
would ask the average person who is the
Holy Spirit they say well and he’s
something religious I’m not sure what he
is and so when I think about that and I
think about the fact that he has really
come to indwell us to enable us to be
everything God wants us to be and to
accomplish everything God wants us to
accomplish that is he didn’t say just go
do this that in the other he says I’m
gonna be with you and I’m gonna end well
to you and I’m gonna see to it that
you’re able to do and to become
everything I desire but it’s not so I
was in seminary that I realize what the
Holy Spirit was all about and the right
way I realized it was this I was sitting
at dinner table one night and this was
my first year and those very college
I argued about all the things that I
believed and with some of our best times
or arguments we had at night time so I’m
sitting there and somehow we got on the
Holy Spirit and I said the Holy Spirit
well well it’s supposed to help all of
us and I said something else about it
and one of the students he was sitting
that I did not know he said he didn’t
embarrass me he said Charles he said
would you like to come to my room after
dinner I said well sure I would he was a
doctoral student I thought I’ll learn
something listening this boy for sure
well I walked in this room and the
Obamas are very intimidated there were
books from the floor to the ceiling
except for the windows all around his
Adama Tyrone
so when he said to me he said I noticed
when you talked about the Holy Spirit
that you called him it I said that’s
what the Bible says and then I pointed
him to two passages of Scripture so I
looked to him and showed him where it
was and he handed me a Greek New
Testament Isilon this is my first year
in my first semester and I’m just
starting Greek he’s that’s okay I’m
gonna take you through the Bible I said
I can’t read that he said I’ll help you
ready so he took me through the New
Testament and he showed me every time
the Holy Spirit was mentioned he said
now here’s what happened when they
translated in a couple of passages here
the Holy Spirit you know it’s the third
person singular he or she or it
and so the translators once in a while
would would call him it and so he showed
me that and all of a sudden I felt very
ignorant very embarrassed but very
grateful he straightened me out about
what the Bible said about the Holy
Spirit that he’s somebody he’s not just
a power not a force not a hit and so I
was very grateful that it
so the question is who is the holy
spirit if you go back to Genesis chapter
1 for a moment and notice what the
scripture says about the creation it’s
in the first chapter and the 26th verse
let us make man in our own image well
who is us God the Father God the Son God
the Holy Spirit and so there he is in
the Old Testament and also oftentimes in
the Old Testament he’s referred to
usually sort of coming and going upon
somebody’s life and every single
believer has the Holy Spirit living
within us and if you go back to John
chapter 14 for example let’s look if you
will in verses 16 17 18 and here’s what
he says Jesus talking to his disciples
before he was crucified he says I will
ask the Father and He will give you
another helper a capital H somebody that
he may be with you forever
not fortunate but forever that is the
Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot
receive because it does not see him or
know him but you know him because he
abides with you and will be in you I
will not leave you as orphans and so now
he begins to explain what all that is
about three persons of the Trinity God
the Father God the Son God the Holy
Spirit
here he calls him a helper the great
enabler the one who enables us to do
what God calls us to do and the one who
equips us to be able to do whatever he
says
and I think about growing up in a church
that that talked about the Holy Ghost
and so forth but nobody ever said this
Holy Ghost we were talking about look
what he does in your life he was a
stranger to my life until my friend took
his Greek New Testament and gave me one
and said here’s who he is went through
every verse in the New Testament well I
understood it to some degree but I
realize
immediately but somebody should have
told me that as a trivial kid I didn’t
have to I didn’t have to live the
Christian life by myself I didn’t do
very good sometimes
and so I struggled and I struggled a lot
of times until he straightened me out he
said you have the Holy Spirit living
within you when I began to realize that
everything changed and immediately I
realized I’m gonna be a better student
because I have the Spirit of God working
within me who will enable me and help me
to recall whatever I need to recall and
everything I can think about the Holy
Spirit is there and so think about what
you face with your family for example
sometimes their struggles you have the
Holy Spirit whether your finances you
struggle Holy Spirit people where you
work with struggle Holy Spirit for
example sometimes people don’t
understand what you saying they don’t
understand your Christian experience but
you have the Holy Spirit living within
you who will enable you in every single
circumstance of life to do your best
whatever it is so he didn’t just leave
us and Jesus said to them he was very
concerned about this he says I’m not
leaving his orphans I’m sending you a
helper that’s what he called the Holy
Spirit I said I’m sending you somebody
who is going to enable you so now watch
this when you got saved immediately the
Holy Spirit came to dwell in you and
what happened he gave you the capacity
that is he enables you to do everything
God wanted you watch this carefully he
enables you to do everything God wanted
you to do at that age at that
circumstance at a later age all the rest
of your life you and I have him living
within us enabling us whatever it is
that’s why we shouldn’t be afraid of
anything there will be difficult times
there’ll be tons from misunderstood
times for example of conflict but we
have to remember this we’re not the ones
doing the battle he who has indwelt us
living inside of us feel those unknown
at us running over inside of us
he is our Guardian and he is the source
of our knowledge the source of our
wisdom and the source of our power our
energy to be and to do what God wants us
to do so when you think about that the
Christian life is an awesome life when
you trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior
your sins were forgiven based on what he
did at the Calvary
paying your sin debt in full you simply
ask him to forgive you believing what he
said if you confess with your mouth
Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart
that God’s raised him from the dead
you’ll be saved immediately God seals
you as one of his children then the Holy
Spirit begins to work in your life it
isn’t an instant now is watch this
receiving the Holy Spirit’s
instantaneous living it out is lifelong
and so we come to the fruit of the
Spirit and all of us admit that everyone
so far we’re not as loving as we ought
to be we not as kind as we ought to be
but he’s there and what does he do he
does which is one of his retention task
and that is to convict us of our sin and
forgive us and so he reminds us that we
don’t have to harbor sin we don’t have
to just hang around with sin and think
oh god what am I gonna do he says in
first John 1:9 if I confess my sins
watch this that means I’m agreeing with
him about him that don’t belong in my
life and he’s willing to remember them
if I agree with him if I confess my sins
he’s what
faithful now what watch that next word
and just what does it mean by being just
it means because he went to the cross
and paid my sin debt until he has the
right to have said the soul that sinneth
it shall die and now say you confess
your sins repent of your sins turn your
life over to me you’re absolutely
forgiven and so the work of the Holy
Spirit is to convict us of our sin
that’s just one thing Jesus said it’s so
beautiful and when he said he’s there
he’s a helper he helps us in every
life watch this he intends for you and
me to live for him by depending upon him
trusting in him every day about every
single circumstance of life here’s what
he said to him he said now in the 24th
chapter have Lu repentance for
forgiveness of sin will be proclaimed in
his name to all the nations beginning
from Jerusalem you witnesses of these
things and then behold
I’m sending forth the promise of my
father the Holy Spirit sending for the
promise of my father upon you for you
are to stay in the city until you are
clothed with power from on high
listen to this he said then here’s your
task the world go into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature now
suppose there were 120 of us said you
did some 20 of us just the folks sitting
right here and Jesus said to us okay
here’s your task you to take what I’ve
taught you to the world I’m gonna leave
you but the Spirit of God is gonna be in
you with you and help you but you
hundred-and-twenty your task is simply
to get what you have seen and heard to
the whole world what would be your first
on history reply well then no way I’m
gonna be able to do that that’s what you
say but that’s exactly what he said to
them he said your task is to get what
I’m telling you to the world and he says
I’ll not leave you I’ll always be there
and so when you wake up in the morning
you wake up in the presence of the Holy
Spirit and God wants us to wake up in
deal listen not just presence but the
awareness of the Holy Spirit that today
whoever are me whatever I face I don’t
have to fret and worry and be anxious
because he’s going to be in me with me
and a
me and then abling me to carry out the
responsibilities I have fulfill whatever
God wants me to fulfil do well whatever
he calls me to do trust him for
everything I have everything I need
because he’s gonna supply it and he says
he sealed us this isn’t something you
come and go with you are sealed by the
spirit of promise the Holy Spirit he
never intended for you me to live one
single day apart from depending on him
and yet I think about how many people go
to church every Sunday the only time
they hear about the Holy Spirit is they
may sing the song Holy Spirit breathed
on me they may hear there but when it
comes to preaching it teaching and
talking about it sharing you don’t have
anybody talking about it because the
devil doesn’t want us talking about the
source of our strength and power he
doesn’t want us thinking about that he
wants uppermost in our thinking fear
doubt I’m unclear Who am I I’m a nobody
is out have you your use somebody that
was worth Jesus dying for that makes you
very valuable in the eyes of holy God
and and he and he’s there to work in
your life and to dwell in your life and
and there accomplish the things he wants
you to accomplish now he is he is our
source we have to see him as our source
the source of power and strength in our
life and there many references to that
nevado but what does he mean when he
talks about the power of the Holy Spirit
everybody wants some kind of power what
is the power of the Holy Spirit
that’s his enabling that’s his divine
energy that is the reality of Almighty
God
that’s God doing something supernatural
in their life divine energy and
spiritual authority now watch this
somebody begins to argue about the
gospel
you just said Thank You Holy Spirit
watch watch this carefully when you get
in a confrontation with somebody you
claim by you claim in that second the
presence the power and the word of the
Spirit of God he is there as your
defender he is there as your
proclamation he is there as the speaker
of truth through you you will say things
yet even thought about you got to bring
scriptures to your mind you and thought
about in a long time why because it is
no longer I but Jesus living in me and
through me and that’s the way God wants
us to live that’s that’s what he sent
the Holy Spirit why to enlighten your
mind help you understand and to enable
you to know what to do and how to
respond and to equip you to live a godly
life listen you’re in watch this your
indwelt by the Holy Spirit and he’s
locked in because God seals you with the
holy spirit of promise and we act
sometimes like you know I’m so weak and
I can’t do this and I can’t do that and
poor me no we go and all the time we
have deity living on the inside of us
ready to work through us and do his will
whatever that might be but you have you
have to acknowledge it you have to
believe it you have to claim it and yet
I know that many people who hear this
message will have never heard a message
on the Holy Spirit and it’s not new it’s
just that people don’t talk about him
and I ever heard people say well you
know I just do the best I can
well that’s not scriptural present in
the Bible just do the best I can know I
do with the Spirit of God will enable of
me
and allow me to do whatever that maybe
it won’t be perfect it won’t be always
the same the spirit of listen I love
this about God he loves us enough and
noses enough that he’s not going to let
us do everything perfect all the time
you know why we’d get cocky and
egotistical and prattle now what he does
for me he lets me make mistakes right in
front of you so so I don’t ever want to
leave the impression I’m perfect because
I’m not but I am truthful I may not be
perfect but I am suitable and so every
single one of us has the spirit within
us when you wake up tomorrow morning you
wake up in his presence in dwelling you
and what’s he there to do to enable you
all day long to do well whatever you
have to do and meet the people around
you with a smile on your face and joy in
your heart even may you may not always
feel it but you respond out of your
spirit not your feelings emotions come
and go there are all kinds of things but
when you respond out of a spirit you
respond and strength you respond to the
energy and the power and the anointing
of the Spirit of God upon you and you
know what happens people watch this
not impressed but impacted by your life
because they see something there they
don’t normally see and everybody else
now so let me just let me give you a
definition of God’s image and his power
the power of the Holy Spirit is God’s
divine energy and authority released in
the life of the believer for the purpose
of godly living and fruitful service
write it down God’s divine energy and
authority released in the life of the
believer for the purpose of godly living
and fruitful service listen not to make
us happy though we’ll be had
not to make us joyful though that
support of the spirit no words he’s
working within us in took in order to
accomplish his will he’s the great
enable in every situation it’s a matter
of knowing that he’s there acknowledging
that he’s there and listen acting like
he’s there and walking and the awareness
that he is there and when that happens
in your life something really happens so
when we do God’s work God’s Way and
God’s wisdom we’re gonna be blessed in
spite of what goes on in our life so
think about it for a moment as a
follower of Jesus Christ
you are equipped with the presence of
the Holy Spirit who is a part of the
Trinity therefore has supernatural
powers you are no longer alone but you
are fully equipped but the presence of
the Holy Spirit to face anything
everything and all things it does that
mean life will get easy but it means
whatever you face you never face it
alone you and God the Father God the Son
God the Holy Spirit all face them
together and think about it you can’t
lose whatever the battle is you can’t
lose when the Holy Trinity is with you I
thought you said just the Holy Spirit
you God the Father God the Son God the
Holy Spirit three persons of the Trinity
you can’t separate it when you have one
thank God you got them all and that is
you have the Holy Spirit God the Father
God the Son God the Holy Spirit living
and working in you now think about this
when Jesus told them that he said go out
to the other most parts of the earth and
that small band started what he told
them to do they did enough of it to
cover the globe and God is still working
and even with those few languages that
are yet to be translated people
working diligently so that every single
person on the globe will be able to
understand in their language the truth
of the gospel of Jesus Christ so I would
ask you this where does the holy spirit
fit in your life are you sitting there
this morning thinking I didn’t even know
who he was
listen he’s a person of eternity
he’s our seal our salvation our life he
wants us to live what he wants us to
live out of his image in strength in his
power in his name for his glory for his
honor and what happens we just get
blessed in the process amen
so somebody says well what’s this being
filled with the Holy Spirit here’s what
it is the Holy Spirit who is within you
is not necessarily filled you he seals
you upon salvation but to be filled with
the Spirit means you must be with the
confess your sins repent of your sin
turn away from them yield your life to
Him surrender your life to him
acknowledge that he owns you that he has
the right to indwell you and guide you
and lead you and that you’re willing to
follow his will do what he wants you to
do when you have fully surrendered
yourself to him the Spirit of God comes
into your life in total fullness you
experience him in a way that you want to
experience for him by just confessing
sins and what happens is the more of
yourself you give to him the more of the
more of him you experience he is a real
person of the Trinity so think about
this when you walk out of here today you
like you walk out in the presence and
the power of the Holy Spirit in order to
fulfill his will and purpose in your
life and you have with you the promise
of his content
he was watch this uninterrupted
continuous uninterrupted you may feel
interruption you may feel you may get by
all kind of things may happen to you
total uninterrupted presence and power
to live out your life and fulfill his
purpose be like you know getting it will
bless than that that’s the work of the
Holy Spirit father we thank you this
morning but what you do for us so much
more than we can ever recount and we
pray that you will grant each one of us
such a strong deed insatiable desire for
the spirit to work in a life that we
will live a surrendered life and you
said when we do there will be love and
joy and peace and goodness and
gentleness and all the promises of the
Spirit so we prayed today for those who
have listened they’re unsaved they’ve
never trusted you as their Savior to
remember there’s no substitute for
salvation there’s no substitute for the
indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit
and if they want your best it comes
through salvation by placing their trust
in Jesus and asking for the fullness of
the Spirit in their life and you will
fall that word and we thank you for it
in Jesus name Amen
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